21% Return With Investments in American Oil fields

The following post is a sponsored article to review a new investment opportunity of Viscount Resources. They plan to offer their clients a basic material investment opportunity within the Schwarz Oil Wells, an oil field in Illinois Basin.

I know that you are real dividend investors but some of you also like direct investments in oil and gas ventures. America experiences a big energy boom for the time being. There is a huge potential of exploring and drilling oil and shale gas within the United States. Railroads and Pipeline stocks have benefited from higher prices for delivering these energy products and the best is yet to come.

Development of the world's energy production (click to enlarge)

Oil and natural gas accounting for more than half of the world’s energy demand. Combined with coal, fossil fuels dominate the global energy consumption with a market share of around 87 percent. Why are they so dominant? It’s easy to explain: The humans don’t need to pay the price of production from fossil fuels. That’s a major competitive advantage compared to new energy sources like solar, biogas or even wind power.

Today I would like to introduce a company that has a great experience in research of investments within the basic material sector. Viscount Resources, based in Gibraltar, are experts in oil and gas investment management. The company plans to manage a drilling and exploring oil venture in Illinois and wants to purchase a license agreement in the Swartz Oil Wells, an area of 640 acres in the Dale Consolidated Oil Field, a known producing area in the Illinois Basin, USA.  The Project Coordinators, Sunset Oil and Gas LLC, along with Drilling Contractor, George N. Mitchell Drilling Inc, have many years of experience operating together within the Illinois Basin.

You can get a full overview about the partners of the project in the Viscount Swartz Brochure. The project offers a double-digit annual return and should run over a lifespan of around 20 years.

The investment opportunity:

-With a 10,000 GBP investment to generate 10 barrels a day (1.365% Share).

- When oil is found investors will earn between GBP 2,400 & GBP 2,800 per annum (on average).

- Estimated return of 21% for the year after fees

- Monthly paid return when oil is being pumped out of the ground

- Potential to gain a higher return if the oil reserves are bigger than estimated

- A Rising oil price can increase your return

- Long Investment Period of 20 Years

- Currency Gains for a non UK-Investor

Risks:

- Decreasing GBP/USD currency pair for non UK-Investors

- Risk of lower than estimated oil reserves

- Shrinking oil price can reduce your return

- Operational risks e.g. exploring and drilling risk

Costs:

- 5% the fee which is GBP 120 and the small maintenance fee which will be on average GBP 155 for the year (both paid directly out of profits)

You can get a detailed overview about the project’s geological situation in the Swartz Geological Report. The report was prepared on November 17, 2012 and shows the potential of the whole area.

Direct investments in oil and gas are definitely riskier than normal investments in high-quality dividend stocks but they offer a great opportunity for risk-taking and yield seeking investors.

If you like to receive more information about the project or how to become a part of the project, you can submit your request or jump on a call with Viscount Resources at +44 (0) 203 397 6738.

Click here to find out more: www.viscountresources.com

Williams Partners (WPZ) Hiked Dividends By 1.77% And 7 Others Followed

Yesterday was a good day in terms of dividend growth. Eight companies raised their dividend payments. The biggest stock was the specialty chemical company Williams Partners. WPZ announced a 1.76 percent dividend hike and yields at 6.67 percent. The company has a rosy future. Analysts are expecting earnings per share to grow by at least 12 percent over the next five years. Only the high debt to equity ratio of 4.20 gives investors a bad taste.

Seven of eight companies with dividend growth on the last trading day have a market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion. Oil and gas companies are the most represented stocks.

The highest yielding stock is the drilling and explorations company Legacy Reserves with a 8.22 percent dividend yield. LGCY raised its quarterly dividends by 0.87 percent, yesterday.

The latest Dividend Growth Stock List

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Blueknight Engy Ptrs GP	5.50	2.13%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/14/2013
Calumet Specialty Prdts	8.25	0.74%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/14/2013
Crane Co	1.90	7.14%	Quarterly	8/28/2013	9/10/2013
Legacy Reserves LP	8.29	0.87%	Quarterly	7/30/2013	8/14/2013
Northwest Bancorp	3.66	8.33%	Quarterly	7/30/2013	8/15/2013
Oiltanking Partners LP	3.55	4.94%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/14/2013
Rayonier Inc.	3.34	11.36%	Quarterly	9/12/2013	9/30/2013
Williams Partners	6.67	1.77%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/9/2013

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The Latest Dividend Growth Stocks | Kinder Morgan In Focus

Stocks with receent dividend hikes originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com.

Two initial special dividends were announced yesterday and nine companies announced a nice dividend growth on the past trading day.

The biggest stock was Kinder Morgan Partners and the greatest dividend hike came from Western Refining with a 50 percent dividend growth. See the table below with ex-dividend and payment dates.

Dividend growth accelerates but is still weak.

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Boston Priv Fincl Hldgs	2.47	40.00%	Quarterly	8/6/2013	8/22/2013
EQT Midstream Partners LP	3.50	8.11%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
First Community	2.15	20.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan	4.05	5.26%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan Energy	6.17	1.54%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/14/2013
LaSalle Hotel Prprts	4.23	40.00%	Quarterly	9/26/2013	10/15/2013
Western Gas Equity Ptrs	1.88	10.49%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/21/2013
Western Gas Partners LP	3.57	3.70%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/12/2013
Western Refining	2.63	50.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013

17 High-Yield Oil And Gas Pipeline Stocks

Oil & gas pipeline operators with highest dividend yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Stocks from the basic material sector could complement your portfolio and hedge it against strong commodity price increases. One industry from the basic material sector with the highest yielding stocks is the oil and gas pipeline industry.

39 companies are linked to the industry of which 37 pay dividends. Combined they have a total market capitalization of USD 800 billion. Nearly 60 percent of the industry players have a yield over 5 percent and some have a really great dividend history. Thanks to the share gas boom it’s now possible that more pipeline infrastructure is needed. The average industry yield amounts to 4.72% and the P/E ratio is 33.40.

You should have seen some interesting pipeline companies on my blog in the past. Normally I am no fan of real estate companies because of the huge amounts of money they need for growing. But pipeline operators look different. They pay huge dividends and have the ability to grow dividends year over year. Their business model works but I don’t know how long. Pipeline operators are better than real estate stocks but it could be possible that the time brings some changes, especially when the energy demand and supply is changing.

Oil and gas pipeline stocks are real asset companies and they have a huge leverage on their balance sheet. The average industry long-term debt to equity ratio is over 123 percent but as long as revenue and cash flow streams are stable, this figure is still healthy.

Linked is a list of all higher capitalized oil and gas pipeline operators (over USD 2 billion market cap) with a yield over 5 percent. Seventeen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eight have a current buy or better recommendation.

ConocoPhillips: New Stock In My Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio

ConocoPhillips (COP) is the company which I selected for my Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio (DYPI).

COP is a major integrated oil and gas company which generates around 69 percent of its sales in the United States. ConocoPhillips explores for, produces, transports, and markets crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas and bitumen on a worldwide basis.

ConocoPhillips is a Dividend Contender, a stock that raised dividends over more than 10 years but less than 25 years in a row. The company hiked its dividend over 12 consecutive years.

Shale oil and gas could be a good growth drive for the company but more important is the development of future energy prices. If you buy a company like COP, XOM, CVX or something in a related industry you make a commodity bet with several options.

ConocoPhillips is valuated with a P/E of 10.98. The forward P/E is in a similar range. Growth for COP is limited and estimated at 5.35 percent for the next five years but I would say that the true growth figure depends mainly on the future oil price and the costs COP has to explore for oil and gas. The dividend yield of 4.32 percent is one of the biggest in the industry. Only yields from European competitors are higher.

I put 20 shares at $61.06 into the Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio. The total purchase amount was $1,221.20. See the tables below.

The COP position represents around 1.2 percent of the full portfolio which was funded virtual with $100,000 on October 03, 2012. The complete portfolio has now 17 stock holdings and generates around $900 per year. I plan to increase the total amount of stocks to a number of 50-70 by the end of this year. As a result, the dividend income should also increase to a value between $3,000 and $4,000.

This shouldn’t be a big problem with still $76,401.45 in cash. All I need to do is to find some attractive valuated dividend stocks. For the time being, its getting harder to find some solid growing stocks with a big yield. But maybe we got some new ones within the next months when they boost their payments to shareholders. We will see.

The DYPI-Portfolio has a total performance of 0.95 percent including dividend payments. Most of my capital is not invested, around 75 percent or so. The return of the invested capital is at 3.52 percent. That’s an underperformance compared to the returns from the Dow Jones and the S&P 500. But I ever told you that the portfolio will underperform if the market goes strongly up because of my slow buy algorithm.

Dividend Yield Portfolio (Click to enlarge)

I ever told you that I don’t like to show how you can make fast money and get quick rich. I only like to demonstrate that you can build-up a long-term dividend growth portfolio which could give you a steady growing passive income and solid capital gains over the long-term. A minimum investment horizon is at least 10 years or more. Not all stocks from the portfolio will perform well, but others will do. That's the nature of the stock market.

Latest Portfolio Transactions (Click to enlarge)

I personally made a six-figure total gross income over the recent ten years. I increased the portfolio value from one of my accounts by the factor of more than 6, only by trading dividend stocks. I am no stock market guru and I don’t like to be treated as one. The return was definitly better than the performance of the broad market but it was no wonder or something else.

The market has great opportunities to offer. You only need to discover some of the best growth stocks with potential to become a game changer. That's real hard work and you need to be a wise and patience investor. At least the time  will bring you wealth.

The Portfolio:

Sym	Name	Last Trade (Price Only)	P/E Ratio	Dividend Yield		Buy	# Shrs	Income	Value
TRI	Thomson Reuters C	30.8	N/A	4.14		28.90	50	$64.00	$1,540.00
LMT	Lockheed Martin C	92.39	11.15	4.45		92.72	20	$83.00	$1,847.80
INTC	Intel Corporation	20.96	9.84	4.15		21.27	50	$43.50	$1,048.00
MCD	McDonald's Corpor	93.72	17.42	3.08		87.33	15	$43.05	$1,405.80
WU	Western Union Com	13.53	6.67	3.15		11.95	100	$42.50	$1,353.00
PM	Philip Morris Int	89.42	17.95	3.65		85.42	20	$65.58	$1,788.40
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	73.92	18.94	3.28		69.19	20	$48.00	$1,478.40
MO	Altria Group Inc	33.45	17.41	5.09		33.48	40	$68.00	$1,338.00
SYY	Sysco Corporation	31.83	16.78	3.45		31.65	40	$43.60	$1,273.20
DRI	Darden Restaurant	45.87	13.09	4.21		46.66	30	$57.90	$1,376.10
CA	CA Inc.	25.05	12.66	4.02		21.86	50	$50.00	$1,252.50
PG	Procter & Gamble	73.25	19.62	3.19		68.72	25	$56.20	$1,831.25
KRFT	Kraft Foods Group	47.14	14.32	4.24		44.41	40	$80.00	$1,885.60
MAT	Mattel Inc.	37.15	15.78	3.26		36.45	40	$49.60	$1,486.00
PEP	Pepsico Inc. Com	72.49	19.24	2.95		70.88	20	$42.56	$1,449.80
KMB	Kimberly-Clark Co	86.26	18.27	3.42		86.82	15	$44.40	$1,293.90
COP	ConocoPhillips Co	61.06	7.42	4.32		61.06	20	$52.80	$1,221.20
								$1,215.19	$24,868.95
								Average Yield	4.89%
								Yield On Cost	5.07%